SIMPLER TASTES URGED.
TAILORS ON EXPENSIVE HABITS. COST OF LIVING SOLUTION. ' By Telegraph.— Press Association. Blenheim, La it Night. A conference regarding wags* wsi.- held by Blenheim tailors and male employees. An application was made by the workers for a 25 per cent, increase, owing to the advanced cost of living. The masters recognised the demands v.'ere justifiable, and granted them, suggesting at the same time that a continual process of putting up manufacturing,and retail prices was not a true solution of the problem. The solution was not in the direction nf shorter hours and increased payment, but rather in a return on the part of the consuming public to more simple tastes and less expensive habits, as well as increased production on the pan >f the workers generally. ' A twenty-five per cent, increase in the price of ladies' costumes was considered necessary by masters, and several suggested, the possibility of having to discontinue taking orders for ladies' costumes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1920, Page 5
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159SIMPLER TASTES URGED. Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1920, Page 5
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